League OC Challenge Day 7
Elijah Dregs was born blind, poor, and abandoned at the age of 5 after proving a burden to care for by his Mother. It was then that he was picked up by a slaver and forced to work on a ship under horrid conditions. He participated in a mutiny at the age of 18, but it was quickly stifled, and the blame was passed onto the Young man. He was beaten an inch from his life and left to die and rot on the Beach.
He was found, lying there, by an old woman who nursed him back to health with strange magic. When he awoke, he was amazed to find that he could see for the first time in his life. The woman entered the room and explained that the vision was only a temporary side-effect from the Hoodoo. As she spoke, his vision faded to nothingness again.
Elijah pleaded for the secrets of her magic so he could see again, and she agreed to teach him on one condition. Without hesitation, he accepted, feeling any consequence was worth the power he would provided with. He trained for years under the old witch doctor, learning to wield the dark magic with relative ease.
One day the Woman told him it was time to pay up for what he had been taught. She performed a ritual, one where he was the target, and revealed a strange liquid he had never seen before, black as night but looking as if it was almost alive. Instructed to sit still, he waited as she poured the liquid on his head.
The substance burned him, eating at him like acid, but he sat still and endured it for his master. His skin cracked and fell away from his body as the substance took it’s place, oozing down further. He pushed his master off, knocking the liquid out of her hands. She cursed his impatience when his mind switched off. When he regained consciousness, he heard her groaning in pain to and found that her entire lower half was missing.
She spoke sporadically, saying things that the transformation wasn’t complete and that the spirit was unstable in him. He felt his body: Hardened flesh with pulsating cracks, razor-sharp teeth protruding from his chest and face, and a long snaking tongue wet with blood. As he thought on it, the monster he had become morphed into human form, his normal body.
Many call him the Demon of Bilgewater, a man with horrifying tattoos that eats the flesh of others to sate his monstrous thirst, Many speculation about the man seem like outlandish rumours, things that one could never believe to be true. The ones who know, any who have seen the beast behind the man, have never lived to preach the truth. It hungers.
“Those who play with the Devil’s Toys will be brought by degrees to wield his Sword.”
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